Midterm Review Flashcards
What is the Equal rights Amendment?
-Proposed amendment to the Constitution that banned gender discrimination
What are Jim Crow Laws?
-Law passed by southern states that enforced segregation
What is the three-fifths compromise?
-Counted each slave as three-fifths a person when calculating the representation in the House of Representatives
What is Judicial Review?
-Courts authority to declare laws void, that violate the Constitution
What is general election?
-Final election that selects an officeholder
What is the primary election?
-Narrows the number of the parties candidates and determines who will run in the general election
What is an initiative?
-Proposed law or state constitutional amendment placed on the ballot in response to a citizen petition
What is Civil Rights?
-General rights to equal treatment under the law.
What is the appropriation process?
- Process of providing funding for governmental programs
- How to spend budget
What is agenda setting?
- Making an issue so visible that important political leader take it seriously
- Determine the subject of conflicts
What is Checks and balances?
- Constitutional division of power into separate branches
- Gives each institution the power to block the actions of the others
What is the 1st Amendment?
-Freedom of speech, press, religion, and to protest
What is the 4th Amendmenft?
-Bans unreasonable searches and seizures
What is the 5th Amendment?
-Govt cant deprive citizens of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
What is the 8th Amendment?
- Prevents federal government from imposing excessive bail and fines
- Prevents cruel and unusual punishment
Pork-barrel spending?
- A representative will try to do as much for there constituents and spend funds to gain advantage
- A member of the appropriations committee that spends money towards state or district
What is constituency
-ppl being represented by person in ofgice
What is democracy?
-A government which all citizens share power
McCulloch vs. Maryland
-S.C. first used judicial review to declare a state law unconstitutional
Affirmative Action?
-Programs designed to enhance opportunities for race or gender based groups
What is the importance of a Committee Chair?
- Gatekeeping
- Agenda Setting
What is a representative democracy?
-People vote for a representative that best represent their interests
What is direct democracy?
-Citizens vote for initiatives
What is Gatekeeping?
-Power of committee chair to set agendas and determine whether a bill dies or moves on
